Karen Rippy, PhD, LMFT

  • 30 years of Experience
  • United States
  • Mission Viejo, California
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Specialties: Addiction, Anger Management, Anxiety, Marital / Premarital, Depression, Dual Diagnosis, Education/Personal Development, Family Conflict, Interpersonal Relationships, Life Transitions, Parenting, Stress, Trauma / PTSD

Specialties

Addiction, Anger Management, Anxiety, Marital / Premarital, Depression, Dual Diagnosis, Education/Personal Development, Family Conflict, Interpersonal Relationships, Life Transitions, Parenting, Stress, Trauma / PTSD

Languages

English

Age Group Focus

Adolescents, Adults, Children, Seniors

Treatment Approaches

Coaching, Cognitive Behavioral (CBT), Contemplative, Crisis Intervention, Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD), Discernment Counseling, Dream Work or Analysis, Eclectic, EMDR, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT Tapping), Emotionally Focused, Existential Psychotherapy, Family-Based Treatment (FBT), Forensic Psychology, Gottman Method, Holistic, Information and Referral, Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT), Intervention, Jungian, Long-Term, Mediation, Meditation/Relaxation, Mindfulness Based Approaches, Parent Guidance, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Pastoral Therapy, Play Therapy, Prevention, Psycho-Educational, Relational, Sex Therapy, Short-Term (Brief Treatment), Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT), Spiritual Counseling, Supervised Visitation, Systemic, Transpersonal Psychology, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR)

Issues

Adoption, Aging, ADHD, Behavior Issues, Bipolar Disorder, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Child Abuse and Neglect, Domestic Violence, Forensic, Grief, Men's Issues, Multicultural Issues, OCD, Personality Disorders, Phobias, Physical Illness/Impairment, Postpartum, Self Abuse, Sexual Orientation, Sexuality Issues, Sleep or Insomnia, Spirituality, Women's Issues, Workplace Stress

State License

California

About Karen Rippy

I am licensed to handle all your relationship challenges!  Clients served: Individuals, Couples, Family, Teens & Children.  I earned a Masters degree and Doctoral (PhD) in clinical psychology. I am California licensed and board certified: Individual, Family, Couple and Child Therapist, I am certified as a Doctoral Addictions Counselor, Substance Abuse Counselor, and am also licensed as a spiritual practitioner.  Other specialties incliude teens and tweens, anger/stress management, co-parenting, infidelity/betrayal of trust, divorce decision-making and Discernment Counseling (commitment questions).  I offer therapy to cope with stress/anxiety and other mood disturbances, parent- child conflict, child custody conflict.  Also a Nationally Recognized Marriage Friendly Therapist and a first responder when emergencies come up.  Also, I have special training when issues of commitment  ("to stay or leave") involving divorce, co-parenting, divorce is being considered (see DiscernmentCounseling.com).

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